The Home Office website drugs.co.uk provides comprehensive guidance and links to a range of other websites and organisations. The site also includes details about the government's drug strategy and targets, and how agencies and communities are working towards them.
The Change for Children Young People and Drugs document, available on the Every Child Matters website, describes how different services work together to meet the objectives and targets for Every Child Matters and the drug strategy.
Coventry has Young People's Drug Commissioner (Word doc.23k) who leads on the planning and commissioning of services to meet the requirements of the Government's strategy locally. This includes developing an annual young people's substance misuse plan in partnership with other agencies.
The Coventry Community Safety Partnership (external website) co-ordinates action across a number of organisations for tackling crime and substance misuse.
Discovery and CADDY (external website) provide counselling and other drug and alcohol services for young people and families.Services include group and individual counselling for young people aged 11 and above and health checks.
The Advisory Teacher for Drug Education (Word doc.23k) provides training, support and advice to schools and gives guidance about policies for Primary (Word doc.77k) and Secondary (Word doc.49k) schools and about the safe disposal of needles and syringes (Word doc.93k).
There are also policy and procedures about substance misuse issues for looked after children (Word doc.168k).
SHADOW (Sexual Health and Drugs Outreach Workers) (external website) is based in Coventry and provides education and prevention programmes for young people about sexual health, drugs, smoking and healthy lifestyles.The team works in a range of settings including schools and youth clubs.
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